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Chamber cuts its managers to three.


THE Liverpool Liverpool, city (1991 pop. 448,300), NW England, on the Mersey River near its mouth. It is one of Britain's largest cities. A large center for food processing (especially flour and sugar), Liverpool has a variety of industries, including the manufacture of electrical  Chamber of Commerce, which represents more than 1,500 businesses employing 140,000 people, has streamlined its senior management in a "rescue operation."

New chief executive Jack Stopforth, who took over in March, revealed that the team of nine senior managers has been reduced to three - a head of central services, a head of customer services and marketing and head of commercial services.

Christine Barton BARTON, old English law. The demesne land of a manor; a farm distinct from the mansion.  has also been appointed as general manager of the chamber's Trident Training division, which yesterday celebrated being awarded an initial pounds 550,000 contract as part of a pounds 1.1m application to the Learning and Skills Council Greater Merseyside Merseyside, metropolitan county, NW England. Created in the 1974 local government reorganization, the county embraced the Greater Liverpool metropolitan area and comprised five metropolitan districts: Wirral, Sefton, Liverpool, Knowsley, and St. Helens. .

The money will be used to manage a training fund providing subsidies for small and medium-sized businesses to help them to develop their employees.

In April, the chamber revealed it had lost pounds 60,000 compared with a pounds 31,618 profit the year before after losing two key training contracts. But in the wake of his shake-up, Mr Stopforth said: "I am confident we will break even, or better
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Title Annotation:Business
Publication:Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
Date:Sep 9, 2005
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